Wisconsin President Joe Biden will travel to Wisconsin next week, a day after his State of the Union address in Washington.
According to the White House, Biden and first lady Jill Biden will avoid Talking Wednesday through Superior about how the $1 trillion infrastructure bill will improve the state’s roads and bridges, among other things, and create jobs.
He signed the sweeping infrastructure package in November in the top legislative victory of his presidency and the country’s biggest infrastructure investment in decades.
“It will be a generational investment to modernize our infrastructure,” Biden said on a layover in La Crosse last June just after the bipartisan deal nearly collapsed negotiations.
Last week, Biden traveled to Ohio to rack up a $1 billion investment from the infrastructure plan to speed up the cleanup of polluted hot spots in the Great Lakes. The additional investment is expected to drive the recovery of 4 contaminated sites in Wisconsin, adding the St. Louis stretching between Superior and Duluth, Minnesota.
Biden’s to Wisconsin also comes as the president announced new sanctions against Russia amid his invasion of Ukraine this week.
Biden will deliver his first State of the Union address and address at a joint congressional consultation on Tuesday.
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